Following are a few of the thousands of community
wealth-building models that can be found in all 50 states and the
District of Columbia.
California
Alvarado Street Bakery (Rohnert Park, CA)
www.alvaradostreetbakery.com
Asian Neighborhood Design (San Francisco, CA)
www.andnet.org
Asset Policy Initiative of California (statewide coalition)
www.assetpolicy-ca.org
EARN
(San Francisco, CA)
www.earn.org
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Station Area Planning (San Francisco, CA)
www.bart.gov/about/planning/station.asp
Benetech (Palo Alto, CA)
www.benetech.org
Blue Diamond Growers (Sacramento, CA)
www.bluediamond.com
BRIDGE Housing (San Francisco, CA)
www.bridgehousing.com
Brown and Caldwell (Walnut Creek, CA)
www.brownandcaldwell.com
Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation (Ventura, CA)
www.cabrilloedc.org
California Association of Microenterprise Organization (CAMEO) (San Francisco, CA)
www.microbiz.org
California Capital Financial Development Corporation (Sacramento, CA)
www.cacapital.org
California Center for Cooperative Development (Davis, CA)
www.cccd.coop
California Community Economic Development Association (Oakland, CA)
www.cceda.com
California Dairies, Inc. (Visalia, CA)
www.californiadairies.com
Community Foundation Land Trust (CFLT)
www.calfund.org/learn/land_trust.php
California Reinvestment Coalition (San Francisco, CA)
www.calreinvest.org
CalPERS, “California Investments”
www.calpers.ca.gov/index.jsp?bc=/investments/
assets/califinvestments.xml
CDC Small Business Finance Corporation (San Diego, CA)
www.cdcloans.com
Center for Diversity and Democracy, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
http://college.usc.edu/cdd/home/index.cfm
Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens (Goleta, CA)
www.fairviewgardens.org
Center on Policy Initiatives (San Diego, CA)
www.onlinecpi.org
Chatsworth Products (Los Angeles, CA)
www.chatsworth.com
Chinatown Community Development Center (San Francisco, CA)
www.chinatowncdc.org
CHISPA, Inc. (Salinas, CA)
www.chispahousing.org
Chrysalis (Los Angeles, CA)
www.changelives.org
City of San Francisco Office of Contract Administration,
Living Wage Unit (San Francisco, CA)
www.sfgov.org/site/oca_index.asp?id=26508
City Slicker Farms (Oakland, CA)
www.cityslickerfarms.org
Clean Power Cooperative (Nevada City, CA)
www.cleanpower.coop
Coachella Valley Housing Coalition (Indio, CA)
www.cvhc.org
*NEW*
Coalition for Responsible Community Development (Los Angeles, CA)
www.coalitionrcd.org
A Community of Friends (Los Angeles, CA)
www.acof.org
Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond (Richmond, CA)
www.chdcnr.com
Community Housing Partnership (San Francisco, CA)
www.chp-sf.org
Community Land Trust Association of West Marin (CLAM) (Point Reyes, CA)
www.clam-ptreyes.org
Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
www.ccscla.org/housing.htm
Cooperative Community Energy (San Rafael, CA)
www.cooperativecommunityenergy.com
The Cooperative Grocery (Emeryville, CA)
www.thecog.org
Creative Commons (San Francisco, CA)
www.creativecommons.org
Delancey Street Foundation (San Francisco, CA)
www.delanceystreetfoundation.org
Democracy At Work Institute (San Francisco, CA)
www.usworker.coop/education
Design Action Collective (Oakland, CA)
www.designaction.org
The Development Fund (San Francisco, CA)
www.tdfsf.org/
Dunn-Edwards (Los Angeles, CA)
www.dunnedwards.com
Earned
Assets Resource Network (San Francisco, CA)
www.sfearn.org
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy Oakland, CA)
www.workingeastbay.org
East Bay Area Local Development Corp (Oakland, CA)
www.ebaldc.org
East Bay Municipal Utility District (Oakland, CA)
www.ebmud.com
East Los Angeles Community Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
www.eastlacc.org
Ella Baker Center (Oakland, CA)
www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=5
El Pájaro Community Development Corporation (Watsonville,
CA)
www.elpajarocdc.org
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
www.esperanzacommunityhousing.org
Fresno West Coalition for Economic Development (Fresno, CA)
www.fwced.org
First Community Housing (San Jose, CA)
www.firsthousing.org
Fruitvale Transit Village (Oakland, CA)
www.fruitvalevillage.net
Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Neighborhoods Program (San
Francisco, CA)
www.haasjr.org
Global Green (Santa Monica, CA)
www.globalgreen.org
Good Capital (San Francisco, CA)
www.goodcap.net
The Greenlining Institute (Berkeley, CA)
www.greenlining.org
Guckenheimer Enterprises (Redwood City, CA)
www.guckenheimer.com
Holiday Quality Foods (Cottonwood, CA)
www.holidayqualityfoods.com
Homeboy Industries (Los Angeles, CA)
www.homeboy-industries.org
Hope Services (San Jose, CA)
www.hopeservices.org
Housing Land Trust of Sonoma County (Petaluma, CA)
www.housinglandtrust.org
Inkworks Press Collective (Berkeley, CA)
www.inkworkspress.org
Inner City Advisors
www.innercityadvisors.org
Internet Archive (San Francisco, CA)
www.archive.org
Institute for Urban and Regional Development (Berkeley, CA)
www-iurd.ced.berkeley.edu
Irvine Community Land Trust (Irvine, CA)
www.irvineclt.org
Isla Vista Food Co-op (Isla Vista, CA)
www.islavistafood.coop
Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network (San Jose, CA)
www.jointventure.org
Kelly-Moore Paints (San Carlos, CA)
www.kellymoore.com
Kleinfelder Inc. (San Diego, CA)
www.kleinfelder.com
La Cocina Community Kitchen (San Francisco, CA)
www.lacocinasf.org
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (Los Angeles, CA)
www.laane.org
Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power (Los Angeles, CA)
www.ladwp.com
Los Angeles Eco-Village (Los Angeles, CA)
www.laecovillage.org
Los Angeles Local Development Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
www.losangelesldc.com
Los Angeles Neighborhood Housing Services (Los Angeles, CA)
www.lanhs.org
Low Income Investment Fund (Oakland, CA)
www.liifund.org
Market Creek Plaza (San Diego, CA)
www.marketcreekplaza.com
Mission Economic Development Association (San Francisco, CA)
www.medasf.org
Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund (Sacramento, CA)
www.ncrfund.com
Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (Oakland, CA)
www.nobawc.org
New Economics for Women (Los Angeles, CA)
www.neweconomicsforwomen.org
New Door Ventures (San Francisco, CA)
www.ggci.org
New Schools New Neighborhoods (Los Angles, CA)
www.nsbn.org
Norcal Waste Systems, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
www.norcalwaste.com
Northern California Community Loan Fund (San Francisco, CA)
www.ncclf.org
Northern California Land Trust (Berkeley, CA)
www.nclt.org
*NEW*
Oakland Community Land Trust (Oakland, CA)
www.oakclt.org
Office of Contract Administration, Living Wage Unit (San Francisco, CA)
www.sfgov.org/site/oca_index.asp?id=26508
Opportunity Fund (San Jose, CA)
www.opportunityfund.org
Orange County Community Housing Corp. (Santa Ana, CA)
www.occhc.org
Pacific Community Ventures (San Francisco, CA)
www.pacificcommunityventures.org
Parsons Corporation (Pasadena, CA)
www.parsons.com
Pasadena Development Corporation (Pasadena, CA)
www.pdcloans.org
People's Community Partnership Federal Credit Union (Oakland,
CA)
www.pcpfcu.org
People's Grocery (Oakland, CA)
www.peoplesgrocery.org
Port of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
www.portoflosangeles.org
PRIDE Industries (Roseville, CA)
www.portoflosangeles.org
Progressive Los Angeles Network (Los Angeles, CA)
www.progressivela.org
Proposition 63—“Millionaires Tax” (California)
www.smartvoter.org/2004/11/02/ca/state/prop/63
Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA)
www.plos.org
ReUse People (Oakland, CA)
www.thereusepeople.org
Rosendin Electric Motor Works (San Jose, CA)
www.rosendin.com
Round Table Pizza (Concord, CA)
www.roundtablepizza.com
Saint Joseph Community Land Trust (South Lake, CA)
www.saintjosephclt.org
San Francisco Community Land Trust (San Francisco, CA)
www.sfclt.org
San Francisco Community Power (San Francisco, CA)
www.sfpower.org
San Jose Water (San Jose, CA)
www.sjmuniwater.com
Santa Cruz Community Credit Union (Santa Cruz, CA)
www.scruzccu.org
Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, CA)
www.saic.com
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (San Jose, CA)
www.sv2.org/about-sv2
Solar Richmond (Richmond, CA)
www.solarrichmond.org
South County Housing Corporation (Gilroy, CA)
www.scounty.com
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE), (Los Angeles, CA)
www.saje.net
Swan's Market (Oakland, CA)
www.swansmarket.com
Swinerton Builders (San Francisco, CA)
www.swinerton.com
*NEW*
Taller San Jose (Santa Ana, CA)
www.tallersanjose.org
Team Works (Los Altos, CA)
www.teamworks.coop
TELACU-The East Los Angeles Community Union (Los Angeles, CA)
clnet.sscnet.ucla.edu/community/telacu
Thoits Insurance Service (Mountain View, CA)
www.thoits-insurance.com
Three Stone Hearth (Berkeley, CA)
www.threestonehearth.com
Transformative Action Institute (Los Angeles, CA)
www.transformativeaction.org
Tri-County Economic Development Corporation (Northern California)
www.tricountyedc.org
The Unity Council (Oakland, CA)
www.unitycouncil.org
Urban Solutions (San Francisco, CA)
www.urbansolutionssf.org
Valley Economic Development Center (Van Nuys, CA)
www.vedc.org
Valley Transportation Agency (San Jose, CA)
www.vta.org/projects/tod.html
Vermont-Slauson Economic Development Corp. (Los Angeles, CA)
www.vsedc.org
Watts Labor Community Action Committee (Los Angeles, CA)
www.wlcac.org
Westside Housing and Economic Network (Fresno, CA)
www.westsidehousingeconomicnetwork.org
Willits Economic Localization (Willits, CA)
www.willitseconomiclocalization.org
Women's Action to Gain Economic Security (Oakland, CA)
www.wagescooperatives.org
Working Partnerships USA (San Jose, CA)
www.wpusa.org
Xigi.net (San Francisco, CA)
www.xigi.net
Youth Sounds (Oakland, CA)
www.youthsounds.org
Zachary's Pizza (Oakland, CA)
www.zacharys.com

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